DIRECT TEACHING -- Western Avenue Community Center...Consumer Nutrition

• 05.20.09… Soy Foods on the Market… great response and interaction!
• 06.17.09… Dating Game/ Food Storage
• 07.15.09… Poisons in the Home

Parkinson's Support Group… St. John's Lutheran

• 06.16.09… Caregiving Relationships

COORDINATION ---Food Safety

• Preparation for Dating Game/ Food Safety program for Western Avenue Seniors
• Continuous Canner Testing!
• People calling needing canner parts
• Coordination of upcoming Microwave Safety programs
• Coordination of upcoming "Does Your Kitchen Pass the Food Safety Test" program
• Selling canning books…. Reordered!
• Calls about getting canning parts.

Sampling of consumer questions in food safety….

• Q: A rhubarb and strawberry jam question.
• Q: I am to take Chicken Teriyaki to a special dinner and I live a couple of hours away… how should I do that and serve safe food?
• Q: I've looked all over for instructions on how to home can beets… just plain beets, not pickled. Can you help me? A: gave him a copied page from So Easy to Preserve.
• Q: What is the All American Canning Company contact number? A: we have that
• Q: Do I need a special canner for peaches or can I just use a stock pot? A: if you use a rack in the bottom and the pot doesn't extend over 4" on either side of the burner on the stove.
• Q: I've canned for years. Now my jars seem to loose liquid. What am I doing wrong? A: We went through all 7 reasons this could happen.
• Q: I have these great Vidalia onions. Used part of one… how do I store it until I use it? A: Press n Seal works well… store in vegetable drawer in refrigerator.
• Q: Along with some other meat freshly packaged, my son dropped off a frozen pork roast dated 2007. Is it safe to eat? A: It is safe. Not recommended to use for good quality, though.
• Q: Via our web site…. " I blanched greens beans for 3 min and then packed in jars. For some reason, I processed in a pressure cooker, at 15lbs pressure for 4 minutes. Thinking later this is not right, I looked through canning book to see that it should have been 20 min at 10 lbs pressure. Can these beans be reprocessed safely? A: yes, if within 24 hours of the 1^st processing time.
• Q: How long do you blanch green beans before you freeze them? A: 3 minutes
• Q: (from Fairbury)… Safety of brine of vinegar & spices for refrigerator pickles. How long can be kept in refrigerator when no processing was done. A: up to a month.
• Q: If a ham is hickory smoked and says ready to cook, does that mean I need to cook it more? A: yes
• Q: I'm freezing zucchini to later make a chocolate/ zucchini cake. Will that work? A: yes
• Q: I want to know about spaghetti squash… canning and freezing.
• Q: Are these commercially canned foods ok? Sweet Sue Broth from July of '08? A: Yes.
• Q: Freezer door left open about 5 hours. I saw a light downstairs and went down to look. Are the hash browns ok? Peas? Everything was still pretty frozen… it's ok.
• Q: I'm freezing corn. I usually cut it off the cob, then blanch it. Is that ok? A: blanch it on the cob, dip in very cold water, then cut it off cob…
• Q: How much citric acid do you put in peaches to can them? A: 1 tsp. powdered/ gallon of water. 6 (500 mg tablets) / gallon of water.
• Q: Is there a web site I can go to about freezing and canning? A: http://www.uga.edu/setp/
• Do you know if the information I have on deciphering bar codes on food is a hoax or not? Including figuring out country of origin etc. A: It's a hoax… go to http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/barcodes.asp

COORDINATION---General Nutrition

• 06.04.09…drafted a letter of support as a co-sponsor for Heartland Headstart to obtain a grant. We agreed to provide educational in-services for staff and programs for families of children aged 0-3 and pregnant moms. Food Safety Glo Germ; Nutritious Snacks; Letters from Baby (prenatal care); MyPyramid activities and tasting stations; Dangers in the Kitchen; Food Budgeting; Meal Planning; Food Storage; Kids Can Help in the Kitchen; Food and Fitness.
• 06.09.09… Spoke with a Center for Human Services counselor and 17 year old client about eating nutritiously. The CHS client and counselor say no one in her household eats correctly. The ones who try she doesn't agree with and would like to just take charge of her own nutrition. I referred her to our website which has links to many good sources including MyPyramid.gov.
• Preparation for Soy Foods on the Market program
• Coordination for Program Review 06.24.09
• 07.06.09… DCFS nutrition class
• Coordination of upcoming Food Budgeting programs and viewing the "Depression Cooking with Clara" series.

Sampling of consumer questions….

1. Q: How many minutes on each side for grilling a filet mignon?

2. Q: What is the difference in the calcium in soy milk and calcium in 2 % cows milk? A: soy milk has 80-90 mg in 8 oz. and 2 % cows milk has 306 mg.

3. Q: Can you help me with this recipe? 1 box angelfood cake mix, 1 can crushed pineapple. Bake in 9 x 14 pan until done.

4. Q: I will soon be cooking dinners at my church for about 75 people at a time and wanted to see if you had a flyer on how to freeze leftovers/ what foods freeze well and what foods don't. A: We have that and I mailed it. I also told her she might want to get a copy of the book… "Food for 50".

COORDINATION--- Healthy Family Relationships

• Working on extension council nominees to represent seniors.
• Scheduled a COLORS personality program for CDV Neville House staff… June 26
• Young at Heart Day work.
• Working on details of Young at Heart Day.
• Working with Peoria Catholic Charities on long term Bloomington client needing to finish her nutrition classes.
• Diversity Retreat Project planning meeting with Jeff and Sandy McGhee
• 07.07.09…HCE annual meeting, program, luncheon
• 07.14.09… Staff and FCS meetings
• Coordinating plans for big Diversity Retreat in April
• Young at Heart… much time spent!
• 07.30.09… Young at Heart Day…. 450
• 07.16.09… McLean County Diversity Project… extended welcome to Family Life Educators.
• 07.22.09… Q: What is the formula for cleaning drains? A: Ã??Ã?½ c. baking soda & Ã??Ã?½ c. vinegar. Cover. Let sit for 15 minutes. Followed by boiling water.
• Coordinating 2 HCE… De-Cluttering lessons to cover for Charlotte being gone.

• Q: Consumer with Blood stain on mattress A: referred to Extension's Stain website… easy to use!

COORDINATION--- Care giving Relationships

• Preparation for Caregiving Relationships program for Parkinson's Support Group…. June 16.

News Releases 1) Weekly Pantagraph/ Community News/ and area newspapers "In the Kitchen" columns 2) County Extension Newsletter articles—Food Safety

News Releases—Food Safety

1. Canning… Safe Summer Food Preservation…
2. Summertime Q & A… Eggs on the Sidewalk
3. Dial Gauge Canner Testing
4. September is National Food Safety Education Month
5. Canning Green Beans and Dial Gauge Pressure Canner Testing
6. So Easy to Preserve
7. Canning Tomatoes Safely…. Updated

07.10.09… Interviewed by Bob Holiday at the Pantagraph Newspaper about Summer Hot dogs… nutrition

1. Mold in the Home

News Releases—General Nutrition

1. Nutrition and Family Programs
2. June is Dairy Month…
3. Beef…How much to buy
4. Pizza with Vegetables
5. Nutrition and Family Programs
6. Summertime… Grilled Chicken Breast
7. Farmers Markets…What's in Season?
8. Summer Grilling… Filet Mignon
9. Budgeting Food…Handout #1… portion 1

News Releases—Healthy Family Relationships

Is it better to grow up later?

Newsletters –

NUTRITION & FOOD SAFETY ; FAMILY & CAREGIVING RELATIONSHIPS

Due to budget cuts newsletters continue on e-subscription only with the exception of 128 Diabetes Lifelines monthly & 30 e-subscriptions

Food for Thought Newsletter e-newsletters = 33

Wellness Ways Newsletter e-newsletters= 42

Your Health and You Newsletter e-newsletters = 24

Connecting with Kids = 37 e-newsletters

Nibbles = 30 e-newsletters

Parenting Again = 16 e-newsletters

PDO--- General Nutrition

1. 05.19.09…Team Telenet and PDO on Food Safety from U of G
2. 05.21.09…Nut. inservice telenet

June… Nutrition inservice for professionals… Mediterranean Diets and Metabolic Syndrone

PDO--- Healthy Relationships

• 06.02.09… Retreat at Unity Center… Teamwork
• 07.13.09… Where service providers will try to capture the new map of services as it relates to budget cuts in state funding.
• 06.23.09…Staff meeting
• 06.23.09… FCS meeting

PDO--- Caregiving Relationships

• 05.18.09… Senior Wellness Coalition …shared organizational programs and economic strife.

COMMITTEES--- Healthy Family Relationships

…05.28.09… Young at Heart committee meeting